Inspirational Quotations by Mark Twain

  • When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.
    From Issue 3
  • Always do right!
    This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
    From Issue 28
  • Few things are harder to put up
    with than a good example.
    From Issue 28
  • Do the right thing.
    It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
    From Issue 52
  • Courage is resistance to fear,
    mastery of fear, not absence of fear
    From Issue 112
  • Twenty years from now you will be more
    disappointed by the things you didn't do than
    by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines.
    Sail away from the safe harbour.
    Catch the trade winds in your sails.
    Explore. Dream. Discover.
    From Issue 113
  • It is better to deserve honors and not have them than
    to have them and not deserve them.
    From Issue 116
  • Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
    Small people always do that, but the really great
    make you feel that you, too, can be really great.
    Topics: Discouragement, Encouragement, Mentoring
    From Issue 125
  • Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
    From Issue 137
  • Throw off the bowlines.
    Sail away from the safe harbor.
    Catch the trade winds in your sails.
    Explore. Dream. Discover.
    From Issue 149
  • Whenever you find yourself on the side of the
    majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
    From Issue 149
  • We all live in the protection of
    certain cowardices which we call our principles.
    From Issue 162
  • Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
    From Issue 171
  • All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
    From Issue 178
  • When we remember we are all mad,
    the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
    From Issue 203
  • Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
    From Issue 206
  • October is one of those dangerous months to speculate in stocks.
    The others are January, February, March, April, May, June,
    July, August, September, November, and December.
    From Issue 235
  • The man who does not read good books has
    no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
    From Issue 251
  • In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man,
    and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds,
    the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
    From Issue 267
  • A powerful agent is the right word.
    Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words
    in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is
    physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.
    From Issue 277
  • Let us be thankful for the fools.
    But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
    From Issue 280
  • Laughter is the greatest weapon that we humans
    possess and it's the one we use the least.
    From Issue 282
  • You can't depend on your eyes when you imagination is out of focus.
    From Issue 284
  • It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
    it's the size of the fight in the dog.
    From Issue 304

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